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Travelling In Your Own Microworld

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When we travel, where do we really go? Author Will Self gives a fascinating talk at the Google campus about the nature of travel and psychogeography

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This is an hour long talk given by Will Self last November at the Google Campus, as part of their Authors @ Google series. It's worth watching in its entirety - Self is one of the UK's best novelists and journalists, too.

After a quick reading about his run-in with American immigration, Self goes on to discuss what actually happens when we go travelling - how we often reduce our experience of a place down to a microworld, where we have little real sense of that place's size, geography, history - indeed, where we barely know anything about it. The speed of travel has brought about this fundamental dislocation from our travel locations, and Self gives a great explanation of the topic that makes it seem deeply obvious and yet unarguably important too.

Self and legendary illustrator Ralph Steadman recently published a collection of their long-running Independent newspaper columns in the book PsychoGeography, which tackles "the vexed relationship between psyche and place in a globalised world".

You can read more about Self at his official site will-self.com, which I happen to co-edit too.

Posted on January 29th, 2008.

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